Anne Penketh trailed around the "golden triangle" of Moscow, Paris and New York as a foreign correspondent for the news agency Agence France-Presse before joining The Independent in 1999. As diplomatic editor she has written on conflicts and crises from North Korea to Iran, and tries to separate the spin cycle from the news cycle by winkling out the diplomatic stories behind the breaking news. In Diplomatic Licence she shares some of the diplomatic whispers from the corridors of power (and the not so powerful corridors).

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